24HOURSUPPORT HELPDESK 38 RE SLOW BURNING
From: "He who doth Slump a lot" (me6@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Slow Burning
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:31:15 +0100


"Quit the smart-ass comments" they said, so I forgot all about doing an intro and listened as Shepİ said
> You haven't told me if Nero Info tool says if your drives are using > DMA?
> Use a bit of your web space,
> http://www.sheppola.karoo.net/nero.jpg > is what mine looks like.
> and my IDE setup,
> http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/cdsetup.html > http://www.psheppard.karoo.net/ide.gif
Would you believe all the settings were identical ?
/scratches head...
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From: Shepİ (shep@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Slow Burning
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:42:12 +0100

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:31:15 +0100, Whilst playing Smegball with the scutters "He who doth Slump a lot" <me6@no-spam> wrote :

>"Quit the smart-ass comments" they said, so I forgot all about doing an >intro and listened as Shepİ said >
>> You haven't told me if Nero Info tool says if your drives are using >> DMA?
>> Use a bit of your web space,
>> http://www.sheppola.karoo.net/nero.jpg >> is what mine looks like.
>> and my IDE setup,
>> http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/cdsetup.html >> http://www.psheppard.karoo.net/ide.gif >
>Would you believe all the settings were identical ?
>/scratches head...

Got to be a hardware fault :/
If under warranty return it.
I've had to return two Cdr/W drives in the past because of various faults.1 Teac and 1 Ricoh.Never had a problem since I changed to,"Lite-on" :)

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From: "He who doth Slump a lot" (me6@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Slow Burning
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:44:20 +0100

"Quit the smart-ass comments" they said, so I forgot all about doing an intro and listened as Shepİ said
> Got to be a hardware fault :/
> If under warranty return it.
> I've had to return two Cdr/W drives in the past because of various > faults.1 Teac and 1 Ricoh.Never had a problem since I changed > to,"Lite-on" :)

Going to try bartering with the manufacturer. Haven't even got the box now :-(
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From: "He who doth Slump a lot" (me6@no-spam)
Subject: Re: Slow Burning
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:13:29 +0100

"Quit the smart-ass comments" they said, so I forgot all about doing an intro and listened as Shepİ said
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 22:44:20 +0100, Whilst playing Smegball with the > scutters "He who doth Slump a lot" <me6@no-spam> wrote :
>
>> "Quit the smart-ass comments" they said, so I forgot all about doing >> an intro and listened as Shepİ said >>
>>> Got to be a hardware fault :/
>>> If under warranty return it.
>>> I've had to return two Cdr/W drives in the past because of various >>> faults.1 Teac and 1 Ricoh.Never had a problem since I changed >>> to,"Lite-on" :)
>>
>> Going to try bartering with the manufacturer. Haven't even got the >> box now :-(
>
> I think you know yourself that 99% of the time you can bang a new > device in and it works,"Out-of-the-box" without problems :/

I've installed 3 of these before and never had such erratic behaviour. Might buy another, switch boxes and take it back, and sell the replacement to someone I know who wants one...
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